Fourteenth session of Carta Branca to Luis Miguel Cintra, a films, talks and conference programme accompanying the exhibition Luis Miguel Cintra - Pequeno Teatro do Mundo. This session will feature a screening of Charles Chaplin's Limelight (1952).

LIMELIGHT

Charles Chaplin | USA | 1952 | 137'

This film from Charles Chaplin's late period as a filmmaker is a long, episodic autobiographical fantasy that respects the terms of his own vision of the nature of cinema. The film tells the story of an ageing vaudeville clown, Calvero, and his friendship with a young ballerina. Buster Keaton appears as an old friend, in a lovely tribute, and there are many old music hall numbers interspersed between personal meditations on life, death and the transcendence of art. The final scene is among the most eloquent and moving images in Chaplin's work and in sound cinema.